California has big plans for improving mental health. Medicaid cuts could upend them

California tax option supports mental health crisis training

The National Alliance on Mental Illness of California is sponsoring a voluntary tax contribution initiative to support law enforcement training for handling mental health crises.

County supervisors vote in favor of mental health care investments

Faced with the increasing possibility of significant Medicaid cuts, San Diego County supervisors did not back away from further mental health care investments Tuesday, approving requests for additional inpatient and outpatient contracts that would add an estimated $15 million to the fiscal 2026 budget. Board members unanimously supported, with Supervisor Jim Desmond absent, pursuing plans to contract for the equivalent of 30 additional behaviora…

California has big plans for improving mental health. Medicaid cuts could upend them

In summary Potential cuts to Medicaid have Californians bracing for changes that could weaken recent gains in mental health care and addiction treatment. California under Gov. Gavin Newsom has made sweeping changes to its behavioral health system, pouring billions of dollars into new services and support programs. But the state’s ambitious plans face a looming threat: the proposed federal spending cuts that Congress is currently considering are …

What Providers and Administrators Need from Behavioral Health Data Reforms - California Health Care Foundation

Case manager Laura Gomez-Cancino leads a wellness group at a certified community behavioral health clinic operated by San Ysidro Health in San Diego. Photo: Hayne Palmour IV Fueled by billions of dollars of investments, California’s public behavioral health system is on a transformative journey toward new and innovative models of care. Yet, despite these exciting changes, many Californians with mental illness or substance use disorder continue t…

Achieving the ‘abundance agenda’ in California will require more than just efficiency

California has a scarcity problem. In recent decades, the cost of consumer goods like cars and cell phones has fallen, while the cost of healthy food and childcare has climbed. We’re rich in natural resources, land and people, but when it comes to producing more of the things we need like housing, energy and transportation […] The post Achieving the ‘abundance agenda’ in California will require more than just efficiency first appeared on Santa M…